Anti-Aging Lifestyle: Fitness

Many researchers still maintain that it is our chosen lifestyle that accelerate aging.

As with eating a healthy diet , we often know exercise is good for us but never seem to get round to making a habit of it. Often we are just too busy and it is hard to find time for what we consider to be the non-essentials.

We believe that we will be able to pick up our exercise regime at some stage in the future when things are better.

Things are getting only worse - you have gained some extra weight and you are not able to get rid of them, our muscles become limp and our bone density decreases....YOU ARE PREMATURELY AGING

It is time to reverse aging with a specially tailored anti aging fitness program.

Exercise is most important slowing the aging process because it increases the amount of oxygen available in the body tissues, a key determinant of energy and stamina.

Brisk walking and stretching exercises are good. Train like a champion or just file like one! Train like a champion or just file like one! Swimming is even better because it provides a low-impact exercise and exerts no pressure on the joints.

Our brains need exercise as much as our bodies do. Bodily exercise increases the supply of oxygen to the brain.

Studies have shown that if you want to reverse aging you need a good exercise program witch consists of two elements:

- Resistance training (or weight-bearing training)
- Cardio training

To slow down aging process you need both - Resistance training AND Cardio training.

Physical Benefits

-Increases general circulation
-Improves muscle strength and tone
-Improves cardiovascular function
-Elevates metabolism and helps to burn more calories; increases the oxidation of fat.
-Improves bone density
-Maintains normal function after an injury
-Improves level of fitness and stamina
improves " body composition "through muscle gain and fat loss
-Increases the amount of oxygen available to body tissues

Psychological Benefits

-Lifts mood
-Improves self-awareness
-Reduces anxiety
-Reduces mild/moderate depression
-Improves self esteem
-Increases confidence
-Reduces aggression

The majority of Baby Boomers add some physical exercises in order to burn calories and lose some weight and tend to neglect the fundamental need for maintaining or rebuilding muscle mass.

Studies have found that no matter how old - whether you are in your fifties, sixties or older - you can rebuild muscle.

The good news is that exercise, particularly weight-bearing exercise, will turn your body into a metabolic furnace! Once you start the fire, you'll burn more calories, and faster, than a sedentary 20 year old.When you increase your muscle mass you're able to burn more calories and loss weight we tend to gain as we age, automatically, even when at rest, because muscle is metabolically active and fat is not.

Here we talk about basic metabolism rate: each kg of lean muscle mass burns 28 kcal in 24 hours when each kg of fat mass only 4 kcal.

Cardio training, like running , walking, cycling develops your cardiovascular stamina-
very import component of Anti-Aging Lifestyle - slows down aging process because increases the amount of oxygen available to body tissues especially your heart and lungs and brain.

I personally prefer Running. Click HERE to learn more.

Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

"If you had to pick one thing to make people healthier as they age, it would be aerobic exercise," James Fries, MD, an emeritus professor of medicine at the medical school and the study's senior author.

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Yoga acts positively in maintaining the health of the human body. One of the most prominent benefits of Yoga is the ability to be young once again. Apart from revitalizing the mind, Yoga rejuvenates the body as well. People, who constantly practice Yoga, have found immense benefits from it and feel better than what they felt in their younger years. There is a very famous concept in Yoga philosophy. According to it, a person's age is determined by the flexibility of his spine, not the number of years he has lived.

Yoga helps in slowing down the aging process, by providing elasticity to the spine, firming up the skin, removing tension from the body, strengthening the abdominal muscles, eliminating the likelihood of a double chin, improving the quality of loose arm muscles, correcting poor posture and so on. Thus, of the numerous benefits of Yoga, anti-ageing is an important one. All you need is patience (remember, there is no one day benefit policy!!) and the determination (you need to be strong willed to practice everyday) to practice Yoga.

Yoga increases the mental competence in a person, making him/her feel younger. It possesses the power to fight the internal as well as the external diseases and dangers. This is the key to help an individual to live longer. There are various types of Yoga, of which Hatha Yoga basically aims at making people live long. Some of the anti-ageing properties of Yoga are long life, increased resistance to diseases, increased vitality, and rejuvenation of glands, looking young, improvement in vision and hearing and many other mental and emotional benefits.